A Digest of the the Laws of the State of Georgia: Containing All Statutes and the Substance of All Resolutions of a General and Public Nature, and Now in Force, Which Have Been Passed in This State, Previous to the Session of the General Assembly of Dec.

Excerpt from A Digest of the the Laws of the State of Georgia: Containing All Statutes and the Substance of All Resolutions of a General and Public Nature, and Now in Force, Which Have Been Passed in This State, Previous to the Session of the General Assembly of Dec. 1837

The acts to carry into effect the penitentiary system afford an instance of the opposite kind. These, as they relate to a State institution, are technically public. But as they have for their Object little else than to provide for the organization and internal police of the prison, are perhaps Of scarcely any Interest beyond its walls; and are therefore operatively local. These acts are, houever, included; partly in deference to legal authority, but principally for the convenience of the legislature, and of the offi cers of the institution.

Statutes respecting the judiciary of one or more, but not all the circuits; or such as are relative to the roads in any number of counties more than one and less than the whole, and other statutes of a similar kind, have been generally admitted. But acts of this extensive nature, if they apply to'persons independently Of terri tory - such for instance as relate to incorporated companies - it has In most cases been deemed proper to exclude. The Operation of the former, though it does not pervade the State, is in its nature uniform and steady throughout a certain part of it. But the latter being limited In their application to no ascertained boun dary, nor confined to any description of officers, or class of the people, 15 of course contingent, fluctuating, and always indefinite. These reasons, though not perhaps of much real weight, have been found sufficient to incline a scale already balanced.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.